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I'm not going to play the opposite game with you. I've tried that and you didn't get it. I've tried telling it to you straight...and you didn't get it. There's nothing else I can say. Go to the cross.

Exactly...twisting the meaning of the bible to suit the flesh. But you aren't seeing how that works with the modern gospel that confirms rich people in their delusions.

Sure. But what is equally true is that the devil can use the word of God to tempt people (including Jesus ) to worship him. Do you see that? Yes or no? And you dodged all my question..as usual. But answering my questions is the key to you understanding the depth of the gospel. If you want to...

This is what you are not understanding. The term believers can include "make-believers" as well as those who have the faith OF Christ by grace. So it all depends on how you use the term. Do all who say Lord Lord...enter the kingdom? Are all who seek to enter into life through the door of Christ...

Emphasis on the living...not living as in a magic conjuring book for all who believe they have control over it by their beliefs.

Actually revealing the many...but otherwise spot on.

The bible is not a conjuring book that you have control over by your beliefs. You are using the bible as if it had a magic book applicability. The bible speaks of the truth...a truth that will cut off those who misuse it to support the flesh.

What I see many here advocating... "If you only had religious beliefs the size of a mustard seed, you could say about this bible....it's all about ME (except the bad parts that actually apply to me). I claim all the promises that Jesus and Paul meant for others are now meant for me and people...

You are claiming that for yourself by your beliefs. I wait on God...without the naming and claiming that makes you feel justified...in your own opinion.

So in modern religious circles we now have a book.... a permissive book that encourages assumptions and presumptions......a misunderstood book that is being subverted to: 1. Give permission for people to justify themselves...even at the level of God Himself. 2. To be no longer responsible for...

As in...because the penalty for sin has already been paid... :rolleyes:

True. And that supports the idea that we are carrying our own cross by doing this. We are in control by our reckoning...by an act of the will. Again true....again supporting the idea that we are called to DO what is right...hence the proper reckoning with the human will to obey God. I don't...

I make them up from copy-pasting verses from the bible. facts? Jesus as fact? What we are seeing here are facts taken from the bible and turned into truth by a religious imagination. The assumption that all believers (believers in beliefs about the bible) experience ANYTHING that is written...

Not everyone who owns a musical instrument knows how to play it. We can be owners and not players. Not everyone who owns a bible understands the message within it. We are not to be hearers of the word only...but doers of the word. How does reckoning work with that? Well. we can use the word...

Who's the we??? A religious assessment, or a pretend one will place the "i" ...the ego...into the narrative in a favourable light. But Paul is speaking to people he knew...who were not posturing, or imagining themselves to be something they were not. Try humility...assuming nothing...unless to...

The trick is to get those who believe in things ABOUT Jesus to put Him on for real ...in Spirit and truth. The distance between a theological assessment of the cross and an experience of the power of the cross...is a universe away. It is the distance between light and darkness...between life and...

In your story...is Richard imagining he is 6 feet under by a process of reckoning? Or...is he crucified to the point where he is INCAPABLE of sin...because he is dead (like it sounds in your story). Here we see the difference...and the controversy...between a Romans 6 reckoning, and a testimony...

What creates so many problems in the church is the depth at which things are received. Much of the modern gospel is about getting as many people in the pews as possible...watering down the message, and the truth, sufficiently, to attract people who are NOT willing to let go of their lives. It's...

Hello to all. I think it important to understand the context of everything we read about in the bible. It's too easy to misunderstand and jump to false conclusions based on an unbalanced and unlearned assumption, unless we look as deeply as possible into how it fits into the ways of God. On...

You are inspired! :)